Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-11

last week, with a capital stock of $4,000.
Directors were elected as follows: Franklin
]. Clark, B. NJ. Hardy, John j. Linscott,
Seth E. Beedy and Arthur E. Beedy. They
organized thus President, j. Linscott ;
Treasurer. B. NJ. Hardy; Secretary, Arthur
E. Beedy; General Manager, Seth E. Beedy.
The purpose of the company is to furnish
gaslight and heat by means of gasoline, the
process they will use said to be perfectly safe
and furnishing bright, steady light at less
than one-third the cost of city gas.
Ira Plaistsd of Lowell and his son Asa R.,
with Billy Soule as guide, captured a very
fine large moose On the Cupsuptic Stream last
Saturday night. Billy set his weight at 1900
pounds. He was Z hands high and his ant
lers measured feet and inch across.
HANCOCK.
Bar Harbor man took it into his head to
build saw mill on one of the favorite drives
at that famous summer resort. If the noise
of his saw equals the shout of protest from
all hands, it will have to be q very musical
saw indeed. The Bar Harborites hope the
general disapproval of his scheme will induce
him to set his saws going elsewhere. The
Record comes out with long leader in which
it says that the scheme to make manufact-
uring town of Bar Harbor will not work. 1t
prints letters from prominent summer resi-
dents who hope that the mill will not be built
and copies protests against it which have
been printed in Philadelphia.
PENoBscoT.
The new machine for baling sawdust which
has just been invented by Mr.. C. E. Mitchell
is described as very ingenious, says the Ban
gor Commercial. 1t is described in the United
States Patent Office reports as follows: A
metallic inside case having expansible and
tspering or wedge shaped sides, two of which
are provided with f1anges, stiffening bars and
means whereby the case may be withdrawn,
combined with a crib having q recess and
transverse grooves.
SAGADAHoC.
Rev. H. E. Foss. of the Beacon street M.
E. church, Bath, delivered an able, interest
and powerful lecture Friday evening, on
Tobacco, Friend or Foe, Which ?" The
speaker said that in Bath there are eighty
places where the weed is sold, and promi
nent dealer figured out that Bath spent about
Sl07 900 yearly for the weed. One local
dealer does a $4,000 yearly business. The
city expenses are 500, 1856. After careful in
vestig alton of the public schools, in this city,
the speaker announced the following result
among the boys in the grammar and primary
schools: The four grammar schools show
230 boys. ll6 had more or less appearance
Of using the weed, while III had never used
1t, and the average age IS only 10 years. In
the primary schools, total, 1863 boys, average
age, years the proportion who had used it
was "a per cent. The speaker condemned
the use OF the weed -Houghton's ship Scotia,
Capt. Sprague, from Trapani, arrived in Bath.
Saturday morning, with 1000 tons of salt for
Houghton Bros. She made the passage in
forty-slx days.
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